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Programme

Friday - Saturday  - Sunday

 

Friday 4 December 2009
Differentiation and expansion

14:30-15:00 Registration
15:00-15:10 Welcome address
15:10-15:50 Christoph Meinel
Margins within: internal discipline differentiation in 19th-century chemistry
15:50-16:30 Charlotte Bigg
Managing hybridity: tools, objects and discourses of physical chemistry in France and Germany c. 1900
16:30-17:10 Ernst Homburg
Technical chemistry - chemical technology - chemical engineering: a movement towards the margins?
17:10-17:40 Tea Break
17:40-18:20 David Knight
The earth and the chemists: founding fathers of the Geological Society of London, 1807
18:20-19:00 William Brock
Pyrology: the people's chemistry, or chemistry by fire in the 1870s
19:30 Dinner

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Saturday 5 December 2009
Integration

9:00-9:40 Friedrich Steinle
Faraday's approach to electromagnetism: a chemistry inspired experimental approach?   CANCELLED
9:40-10:20 Christine Nawa
Bunsen on the margins: crossing the borders to technology and earth sciences
10:20-11:00 Alan Rocke
Passing through and cutting across: the worlds of Hermann Kopp
11:00-11:20 Coffee Break
11:20-12:00 Brigitte Van Tiggelen
Jean-Baptiste Van Mons (1765-1842), from the periphery to the margins
12:00-12:40 Anthony Travis
Raphael Meldola, the Neo-Darwinian: observations on butterflies and chemistry
12:40-14:10 Lunch Break

Saturday 5 December 2009
Bridging broader margins

14:10-14:50 Anna Märker
From cookery to chemistry: the development of preservation techniques for anatomical research
14:50-15:30 Ursula Klein
Experiments on pigments in the Royal Porcelain Manufactory of Berlin (1787-91)
15:30-16:10 Roland Wittje
One experiment - different meanings: history and significance of water decomposition in physics and chemistry
16:10-16:30 Tea Break
16:30-17:10 Marco Beretta
Pliny the Elder and alchemy
17:10-17:40 Rainer Brömer
Paracelsus and "chemical medicine" in the Ottoman Empire (tibb-i cedid)

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Sunday 6 December 2009
Behaving marginally

9:00-9:40 Klaus Hentschel
Why spectroscopy never became a discipline whereas materials science eventually did
9:40-10:20 Thomas Steinhauser
The construction of the modern infrared spectrophotometer between industrial competitors, ene-mies, and scientific colleagues
10:20-10:50 Coffee Break
10:50-11:30 Carsten Reinhardt
Identities and emotions at the margins: the case of physical methods
11:30-12:10 Concluding Remarks and Final Discussion
12:30 Farewell-Lunch

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